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Jul 14 13 9:57 AM
taraco wrote:A sad episode, and one all too common these days. (It makes you wonder how rife this was pre-Web, when these things were often only discovered accidentally).
Indeed. My newspaper career started in '81 &, after an interruption for grad school, really began in earnest in '85, & looking back ... Nah. I don't really want to think about it. I never knowingly encountered a case of plagiarism myself during my reporting or editing days, but a few years ago my former newspaper here had to let a reporter go for inventing sources out of whole cloth, which is just as bad ... though at least other people's work wasn't being lifted, I suppose.
Anyway, yes -- sad. I knew her byline (memorable only for its fakeness, of course; perhaps that should've been a sign*) from Fangoria, to which I've been subbing for several years now. Wasn't aware till now of the Tarantino connection, though of course in my jaundiced eyes that wouldn't have constituted any sort of endorsement anyway.
*No, dammit, I did not appear in my old newspapers as "gef the talking mongoose"!
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